The 2015 recipient of the Steve Martin Prize in Banjo and Bluegrass, Danny Barnes, has re-recorded his classic album, Get Myself Together, as Got Myself Together (Ten Years Later) which was released this past November. Barnes has said of the album, “I spend a lot of time developing new contexts like the barnyard electronics aesthetic. I wanted to make something with this record that featured more of my raw acoustic sound, as though I was kind of playing in your living room.” And that’s exactly what you hear, and feel, as you listen. There’s true American storytelling here (and, of course, impeccable picking), offering tales of hardworking men and woman and their (often hard & troubled) lives. The album’s twelve songs, plus an encore, are stripped down to their core, and the resulting feel is intimate and special. Got Myself Together has a beautiful simplicity that, using so little, conveys much - allowing one to truly hear the story and have its impact be even greater.